May 6-7, 1999
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
1.1 Executive Committee Chair Louise Wallendorf called the meeting to order at 9:00 am on Friday morning, and welcomed members and guests. The meeting was held in the conference room of the Hydromechanics Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Academy. Special thanks to Dr. Dave Kriebel for allowing us to use the Academy facilities for our meeting.
1.2 The meeting was attended by the EXCOM members, invited guests, and ASCE staff listed below.
Committee Members:
Guests:
ASCE Staff Member:
Mike Briggs presented the minutes from the previous EXCOM meeting, November 13-14, 1998 in Melbourne, FL for review and approval.
2.1 Louise noted a slight correction to the Coastal Zone Management committee report involving the task committee formation for the Sand Rights '99: Bringing Back the Beach conference in Ventura, CA, in the Fall of 1999. The task committee formation for this conference is not required.
Brian Parsons presented the ASCE Staff Report.
3.1 ASCE approved the EWRI Business Plan and Bylaws in January. ASCE had put the EWRI institute formation on hold until after they reviewed the two existing Institutes, Geotechnical and Structures. The report was very positive, so now EWRI and others have a "green light" to proceed with formation.
3.2 The ASCE Conference Department is working on an agreement with Institutes that will improve their efficiency and competitiveness. We can expect some changes in this department in the future.
3.3 Because of our ties with transportation issues in the ports and harbors area, COPRI should consider a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the proposed Transportation Institute.
3.4 The Waves 2001 conference submitted a proposal to have their conference in San Francisco. Because San Francisco is a high-cost city, ASCE does not normally encourage conference locations here. ASCE solicited a bid with Billy Edge's conference requirements to a number of hotels in San Francisco. A favorable rate was negotiated with the Hyatt Regency Hotel, September 1-3, 2001, so ASCE was able to waive this rule.
3.5 COPRI should continue liasons with other groups. These liasons will be appointed by COPRI and approved by ASCE.
Dan Cox reported on the activities of the News Correspondent.
4.1 ASCE has been putting in everything that Dan submits for the ASCE Newsletter, about 80% verbatim. Way to go, Dan! The next deadline for the Newsletter is the 3rd or 4th week in May. Committee members should continue to submit articles, minutes, and other news appropriate for the Newsletter and the WPCO/COPRI web page. Dan will happily add anything that you want to put in. ACTION: Committee Chairs
4.2 Dan will add announcements and links to our specialty conferences if the Chairs submit this information.
4.3 Liz will send minutes of technical and task committees to Dan for posting on web page. ACTION: Downey
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES
5.1 Awards Committee
Nobu Kobayashi reported on the activities of the Awards Committee (AC).
5.1.1 The International Coastal Engineering Award will be presented to Dr. Tony Dalrymple at the Coastal Structures'99 in Spain in July. Last years winner Orville Magoon will present the award to Tony. Congratulations Tony!
5.1.2 The Moffatt-Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award will be presented to Mr. Ken Childs, Jr. Ken is a former WPCO EXCOM member. The presentation will be arranged by the Ports and Harbors Committee.
5.2 Coastal Engineering Research Council
Nobu Kobayashi reported on the activities of the Coastal Engineering Research Council (CERC).
5.2.1 The 27th International Coastal Engineering Conference will be held in July, 2000 in Sydney, Australia. The deadline for abstracts is June 1, 1999.
5.3 Publications Committee
Nobu Kobayashi reported on the activities of the Publications Committee (PC).
5.3.1 Editor Jim Kirby reports that everything is going well relative to the journal publication. Because of the diverse backgrounds of the 16 Publication Committee members, they have had a difficult time getting together for a meeting. The EXCOM discussed the problem and understands the problem relative to getting reimbursement, but recommends that the Publications Committee have at least one or more conference phone calls. ACTION: Kirby
5.3.2 The Publications Committee has been working on the selection of the Best Paper Award, but have had a difficult time coming to a consensus, again because of the diversity of the group. The EXCOM recommends that they address these issues at the next meeting or conference call and come to a workable procedure. ACTION: Kirby
5.3.3 The EXCOM then had a lively discussion on types of papers, technical vs. practical. The EXCOM would like to encourage the Publications Committee to include a mix of practical papers and some new members with industry experience. ACTION: Kirby
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
5.4 Coastal Engineering Committee
Louise Wallendorf reported on the activities of the Coastal Engineering Committee (TCCE).
5.4.1 Jack Cox will be the new Chair of the TCCE, replacing Steve Hughes. Ram Mohan joins TCCE as its newest member.
5.4.2 Jack would like to hold a meeting in September in conjunction with the Breakwaters '99 conference. The EXCOM voted to approve this meeting in the hopes of "jump starting" this committee.
5.4.3 Steve's latest thinking on the Coastal Practice conference is to have it in Tampa or Orlando in 2002. Bob Nathan has volunteered to help with local arrangements. The EXCOM was excited to hear this and voted to throw in a "Curious George" T-shirt to Steve if he can pull this off!
5.4.4 Dan Cox is thinking of a conference entitled Coastal Hydrodynamics 2005. He will be working on a proposal in the next couple of years and plans to coordinate through the TCCE.
5.5 Coastal Zone Management Committee
Mike Briggs reported on the activities of the Coastal Zone Management Committee (CZM).
5.5.1 CZM is working on the Sand Rights '99: Bringing Back the Beaches Conference with the California Chapter of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and the Coastal Zone Foundation. It is scheduled for 23-26 Sep 99 in Ventura, CA. There is a link to the web page for this conference on the WPCO web page. They are researching whether ASCE will publish the proceedings.
5.5.2 CZM has been working with Margaret Richardson and Doug Sherman of Sea Grant and the ASCE Council on Natural Disaster Reduction (CNDR) on a conference on Coastal Disasters 2001. They are planning for a December, 2001 venue in San Diego, CA with an attendance of approximately 500. Louise Wallendorf will be Chair, with assistance from Orville. The EXCOM voted to fund a task committee to prepare a proposal with the CNDR .
5.5.3 CZM is endorsing the 6th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling to be held on 3-5 Nov 99 in New Orleans, LA; Malcolm Spaulding of CZM is conference co-chair. The other co-sponsor is the Computational Hydraulics Committee of the Water Resources Engineering Division. The Call for Papers has just been issued.
5.6 Ocean Engineering/Waves and Wave Forces Committee Louise Wallendorf reported on the activities of the Ocean Engineering/Waves and Wave Forces Committee (TCOE/WWF).
5.6.1 Prof. M.H. Kim at Texas A&M University is heading a task committee to prepare a manual on the spar buoy platform. Using $700 of the remaining Ocean Engineering budget, they are planning to meet several times over the summer in Houston. This task committee needs to provide EXCOM a summary of what they have accomplished with the FY99 funds to receive FY2000 funds. ACTION: Kim and Wallendorf
5.6.2 Tom Hudon recruited a new member for the TCOE/WWF and ASCE. Mark Murton is employed by the Naval Facilities Engineering Commmand in Washington D.C. Welcome Aboard Mark! He has agreed to organize a session(s) at Oceans '99 (in exchange for re-imbursement of his airfare). ACTION: Wallendorf
5.6.3 Bob Randall is beginning preparations for the next Civil Engineering in the Oceans conference.
5.6.4 The Subcommittee on OTC Support (SOTC) is preparing for the upcoming OTC in May. Bill Luyties has been nominated to the OTC Board as the representative of ASCE. Jim Dailey will maintain contact with Bill on the technical program for OTC 2000 and ideas for a structure for the COPRI logo. (see below). ACTION: Dailey
5.7 Ports and Harbors Committee Doug Sethness reported on the activities of the Ports and Harbors (P&H) Committee.
5.7.1 The P&H is continuing work on Ports 2001 conference in Norfolk, Virginia. The EXCOM voted to fund them for $2000 for FY99.
5.7.2 The P&H would like to create a new task committee on Container Terminal Pavement Design. The final product will be a manual of practice for design guidelines for container terminal pavement design in October 2000. They predict sales of this manual will be several hundred copies. They would like to schedule their first meeting in July. The life of this task committee will be only one year, but spanning two fiscal years. They are asking for a budget of $2,000 this year, and $2,000 next fiscal year. The EXCOM voted to approve this task committee, but funding for next year is subject to progress this year.
5.7.3 The task committee on Corrosion Protection was approved for $500 in funding for FY99.
5.8 Rubble Mound Structures Committee Mike Briggs reported on the activities of the Rubble Mound Structures Committee (RMSC).
5.8.1 The RMSC is continuing final planning for the Breakwaters'99 conference on September 8-10. 1999 in Madison, WI. They plan to have a committee meeting during this conference.
5.8.2 Coastal Structures'99 will be held in Spain, June 7-10, 1999. Nobu is Co-Chair of this conference. About 150 papers and 300 to 400 persons are expected to attend. Future conferences are being discussed for 2003 in the United States and 2007 in Japan. Tentative plans for the Coastal Structures 2003 conference are for Orville to be Chair, Nobu to be Co-Chair, and Jeff Melby will be Secretary.
5.8.3 The RMSC is preparing a paper on U.S. regulations for the Coastal Structures'99 conference in Spain this summer.
5.8.4 The RMSC elected Jeff Melby, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, USAE Waterways Experiment Station, as a new member of the committee. Welcome Aboard Jeff!
5.9 Waterways Committee
Mike Briggs reported on the activities of the Waterways Committee (WC).
5.9.1 Robert Pietrowsky is the incoming Chair, replacing Paul Schonfeld as of October 98. Clark McNair is the incoming Secretary.
5.9.2 The WC held a teleconference on 25 Feb 99 to discuss membership, long range plans, manuals, conferences, journal papers, and annual committee meeting.
5.9.3 A new dredging task committee under Clark McNair and Charles Calhoun is being formed to plan for the next in the series of Dredging 2002 conferences in the Spring of 2002. This committee has been approved for a $2100 budget for FY99. They will have their first meeting in Chicago in May, in conjunction with the WC meeting (see below).
5.9.4 The WC helped organize, and a committee member is moderating, a panel on Inland Waterways: Coastal Shipping at the U.S. Section meeting of PIANC in Memphis on 14 May 99. This panel includes speakers from Europe, China, Africa, and the U.S.
5.9.5 The WC is planning a meeting in Chicago on 19-21 May 99. The agenda includes long range plan, waterways manuals, conferences, and journal papers, membership, and new activities.
5.9.6 The WC had developed a Long Range Plan that is a good example for COPRI and other technical committees. Dan Cox will post on the WPCO/COPRI web site. ACTION: Cox
5.10 Wetlands Engineering and River Restoration Conference
Mike Briggs reported on the activities of the Wetlands Engineering and River Restoration 2000 Conference activities.
5.10.1 Craig Fischenich is again heading up the organization for this conference. They are considering Reno and Orlando as venues for the conference in the year 2000. This will be the second in the series of these conferences. The next one, tentatively scheduled for 2002, will be a joint effort between COPRI and EWRI. Craig anticipates that this conference will alternate between these two Institutes.
6 Old Business
Mike Briggs waltzed everyone down memory lane on the ACTION items from the last meeting.
6.1 We seem to be getting everything done, so there were no left over Action items from previous meetings to discuss.
7 Budget Update
Louise and Liz discussed the current budget.
7.1 Liz handed out a nice summary of our FY99 expenditures to date. Our budget is $32,800 for this year, and we have only spent $8,600! Only the EXCOM, Ocean Engineering, Ports and Harbors, and Waterways committees have used any of their budgeted funds. The EXCOM reapportioned the remaining FY99 funds to the active (or expected to be active) committees.
7.2 Louise handed out some spreadsheet budgets she had prepared for FY99 and FY00 (that's 2000 for the Y2K- challenged among us!). She explained the rather complicated funding algorithm of ASCE. Credit is given for Manuals of Practice, proceedings, sessions at conferences, journal papers, and news articles. In FY00 we expect to get approximately $33,700. Louise distributed a spreadsheet with the details of this budget.
8 COPRI
The main new item of business was continued discussion of the transition/merger of the WPCO Division into COPRI. The beginning data is now expected to be October 1, 2000.
8.1 Mike Briggs and Craig Fischenich summarized the COPRI background, mission, and status for Bill Marcuson. He promised to be our advocate to the ASCE TAC and Board of Directors at their meetings this spring. Bill reported that everything went well and "the slides are greased" for our presentation at the July TAC meeting.
8.2 The EXCOM discussed the final revisions of the COPRI Business Plan. Nobu will send copies of the revised plan for posting on the web page. ACTION: Kobayashi
8.3 Next, the ByLaws were discussed and some monor corrections were noted for revision. Doug will correct and send the revised version. ACTION: Sethness
8.4 The TAC is in the process of revising their procedures manual. Thus, Brian suggested that we hold off on the COPRI Rules of Policy and Procedure until after a final version is prepared.
8.5 Plans are progressing nicely for the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with EWRI, MTS, PIANC, and AAPA.
8.5.1 The MTS MOU was signed by Wayne Ingram of MTS and Louise and Brian will send to Jim Davis of ASCE. We are soliciting WPCOE members to participate reviewing papers and organizing sessions; To date, we have Mark Murton of the Ocean Engineering Committee and Tom McCullough. of the Ports Committee. Dan Cox is asking a colleague to represent the coasts. ACTION: Cox and Wallendorf
8.5.2 Doug Sethness is continuing to talk to AAPA and PIANC about their MOU's. ACTION: Sethness
8.5.3 Brian Parsons will notify us when EWRI is ready to talk about their MOU. ACTION: Parsons
8.6 Louise prepared some handouts on the history of membership and products in the WPCO Division since 1993. Some of the trends were very interesting. She also had a summary of the sales of recent WPCO publications. It was very enlightening to see how well our publications have done, often selling 2 to 3 times more than the number of original conference registrants. For the 1997 and 1998 fiscal years, the WPCO Division had only 2.1% of the total ASCE membership, but we produced 14% of the Manuals of Practice, 11% of the proceedings, 8.3% of the sessions at specialty conferences, and 5% of the journal articles. Anything better than 2.1% is excellent.
8.7 Once COPRI is formed, we will probably have a lobbying and legislative group.
8.8 Sara Anne Towery of the Ports Committee prepared Louise some draft designs for the new COPRI logo. The EXCOM discussed some improvements. ACTION: Sethness
8.9 On Saturday, we worked on the slide presentation for the July presentation to TAC. A "strawman" was completed and Louise will send a draft to EXCOM members in early June. Everyone should send photographs for slide backgrounds. ACTION: Wallendorf and EXCOM members
9 Next Meeting
9.1 The final item of business was selection of the venue for the next EXCOM meeting. The meeting is tentatively scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, August 20-21, 1999, in St Thomas, Virgin Islands. This venue was selected to facilitate presentation of the Moffatt-Nichol Award to Ken Childs, Jr. This date will allow us to plan for the next step in the COPRI ratification process after we get feedback from the presentation at the ASCE BOD meeting in July.
9.2 Louise will coordinate arrangements with Liz Downey. Action: Wallendorf
10 Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned around 12:30 pm on Saturday. We then had a short tour of the Naval Academy towing tank and the ongoing experiments with a model of the Mobile Offshore Base (MOBS). Pretty Impressive!